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    GTX1070 2114/9500 vs GTX1080TI

    Good job! Nice results. Really puts the 1070 in its place :D
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    NVIDIA Volta Rumor Thread

    I remember doing something similar to speculate on potential consumer Volta parts: Whether or not it will be 64CC per SM for a total of 14SM per GPC vs 128CC per SM for a total of 7SM per GPC, I think its fare enough to expect a GV104 to perform at around GP102 levels (+10~20%; higher would be...
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    Vega refresh - Expected? How might it look?

    And thats probably due to Ryzen and more importantly EPYC platform that will shake Intel's stranglehold on the lucrative server market.
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    Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

    Whats the impact on power consumption when one overclocks the mesh?
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    980ti Keplered?

    I actually thought the recent VEGA (VEGA56 in particular) reviews showed just how good the 980Ti was.. maybe it was just me!
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    AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and 56 Reviews [*UPDATED* Aug 28]

    Regardless of whether or not its the best gaming card, the primary revenue stream for the RTG is gaming. Same goes for nVIDIA as the majority of their revenue and profits come from the gaming market. Its their core and primary business in terms of video cards. So saying things like "its not...
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    AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and 56 Reviews [*UPDATED* Aug 28]

    Now they wait for Navi.. All joking aside, would be great to see an exhaustive technological deep dive on why VEGA is the modern day R600 if not the NV30 (I still think that the NV30 was the worst out of the bunch - nothing can beat the stock cooler)
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    Nvidia likely response to Vega

    https://seekingalpha.com/article/4097782-nvidia-nvda-q2-2018-results-earnings-call-transcript We could potentially see a Pascal refresh or maybe some new SKUs.. who knows.
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    AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and 56 Reviews [*UPDATED* Aug 28]

    This really doesn't bode well for AMD. I really hope that the perf/w for the lower end VEGA variants aren't off the charts, especially the APUs because im quite interested in them. Ryzen has been a big hit, but VEGA is almost R600/NV30 level of bad.
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    When was AMD / ATI last performance leader for singel GPU?

    From the top of my head, the last time they had a clear winner was with the HD5870 and HD5970. The former was a fantastic card with great all round performance and power efficiency. The flagships that really stick out are: R300 - 9700PRO Cypress - HD5870 A special mention to the HD4870/4890...
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    [Hardware Unboxed] R7 1700 @4Ghz + 3200Mhz RAm = ~7820X @4.5Ghz

    True. Even your Ti, STM and microchip MCUs/ICs + GPUs, all of them have erratas. And most often than not.. they aren't really documented (some do but most dont!). Not just 1 or 2 but a whole slew of things. But in the end, they are deemed to functional and work as designed so they get put on...
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    AMD Vega (FE and RX) Benchmarks [Updated Aug 10 - RX Vega 64 Unboxing]

    Maybe it might make nVIDIA push the price down the 1070s and make room for a 1070Ti (spec'd like the mobile version + clocks). Vega 56 is looking like a solid card for the price, power and performance.
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    FarCry 5 and Wolfenstein to use FP16

    It does depend on the software but back in those days, R300 still managed to perform well across a whole slew of games regardless of game engine. Its just like the G80, where you let your hardware do the talking. Sure more performance can be extracted out from certain architectures for specific...
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    FarCry 5 and Wolfenstein to use FP16

    Forgot that ATi use to use FP24 up until the R520 and infact might have been a good choice at the time given performance/IQ/power consumption. Miss those days when ATi use to churn out great architectures and features. Cant believe this was more than a decade ago though!
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    Vega/Navi Rumors (Updated)

    My train of thought is that Navi will again be an updated GCN architecture (and could be the last one), down shrinked to 7nm and an emphasis on perhaps MCM based solutions via infinity fabric (potentially useful for GPGPU/HPC market, NOT the gaming market - think along the lines of NVlink). I...
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    Vega/Navi Rumors (Updated)

    The RTG imo is very far behind. They are stuck with an architecture thats basically hitting its limit (or bottle necked significantly in places not disclosed) as evident by the lack of performance increase given its clock speed and power draw. They are 14 months behind nVIDIA whom have a GPU...
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    AMD Vega (FE and RX) Benchmarks [Updated Aug 10 - RX Vega 64 Unboxing]

    More like the power of competition ;) We need more of this.
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    FarCry 5 and Wolfenstein to use FP16

    FP16 in games? is this 2003? NV30 anyone :D
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    AMD Vega (FE and RX) Benchmarks [Updated Aug 10 - RX Vega 64 Unboxing]

    Its better than nothing but not great considering that Pascal based video cards are already a year old (maybe not so the Ti but the architecture). A hypothetical GV104 could come in to replace the GP102 based Ti and with lower power consumption/smaller die size.
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    Techpowerup:Intel Says AMD EPYC Processors "Glued-together" in Official Slide Deck

    Its funny because a multi billion dollar company like Intel would kill to have a CPU architecture as modular (in terms of the MCM scheme) as Zen due to how flexible it is in terms of configuration and its associated manufacturing cost vs a monolithic approach that Intel has right now. Just...
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    AMD Vega (FE and RX) Benchmarks [Updated Aug 10 - RX Vega 64 Unboxing]

    Btw why is the die size so big? I think Fury weighed in at 593mm2 iirc. What the hell is taking up so much space?
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    AMD Vega (FE and RX) Benchmarks [Updated Aug 10 - RX Vega 64 Unboxing]

    Basically we have very power hungry GTX1080 competitor (or 1070..). That is quite disappointing because a polaris with higher CU count may have achieved the same thing at more reasonable TDP. Or atleast cheaper to produce. The PCB looks very expensive to make e.g. 13 phases for the memory and...
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    Vega/Navi Rumors (Updated)

    Pretty disappointed that there is no reviews or slide decks etc on the FE release with more details on the uarch etc. Did anyone notice the >850W PSU reccomendation under the specifications?
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    Vega/Navi Rumors (Updated)

    Its a big risk they are taking given the position they are in imo. Instead of investing into a high end GCN4 based GPU (they released P10, P11 and P12 which cover the bottom half of the GPU performance spectrum), they skipped this and went straight to GCN5 ala VEGA. The question is, will this...
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    Vega in the Mac

    It was observing from the fact that Vulkan is replaced with Metal2 and this API sounds like its apple-only meaning AMD GPUs (and their own inhouse GPU for that matter) only. Correct me if I am wrong but Im thinking this is the direction or approach they are taking.
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    Vega in the Mac

    Im more inclined to believe that its mainly due to cost (nVIDIA parts tend to be more expensive and the egos of both companies would make negotiation so much difficult haha) and the software ecosystem (OpenCL) that they've created around the AMD parts over the past couple of generations. I...
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    Vega/Navi Rumors (Updated)

    This looks more like an artist's representation of the die but still cool nonetheless.
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    Vega/Navi Rumors (Updated)

    Well they are the artists impressions of the GPU which may or may not be correct. But your right, basically geforce variants will have most of them stripped or crippled just like their Pascal counterparts e.g. a 1:16 FP64 rate etc just software support/compatibility purpose. Thinking the gaming...
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    Vega/Navi Rumors (Updated)

    It wont be 750mm2. Not sure where you get this estimation from but if we look at the downscaling of GP100 to the consumer orientated GP102, we could expect a hypothetical ~627mm2 GV102 with 5376CC (64CC per SM/14SM per GPC/6GPC) with a 384bit GDDR5X/6 memory system. This is probably sometime...
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    Vega/Navi Rumors (Updated)

    Not sure about the accuracy but since HBM2 is newer and has alot more customers (nVIDIA, AMD etc).. the cost might have been driven up substantially given demand/supply compared to HBM1. Plus these are going into high margin products so perhaps the manufacturers like SK Hynix etc are looking to...
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    ZOTAC introduces a pair of GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Mini cards

    Very impressive given it uses the conventional GDDR5 memory technology so alot more components on board. Having done extensive PCB layout myself.. hats off to the PCB engineers being able to fit everything given the space restriction while maintaining acceptable EMI and electrical performance!
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    Vega/Navi Rumors (Updated)

    All abroad the hype train!
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    Vega/Navi Rumors (Updated)

    Nice comparison. The savings arent huge in terms of die size but still better than the convential GDDR technology. This is very ignorant especially when the buisness case is there for nVIDIA to produce these GPUs even with horrible yield rates (we dont know for sure but assuming it will be...
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    Vega/Navi Rumors (Updated)

    On a side note this HBCC feature somewhat reminds me of TurboCache or whatever marketing name they use to call it back in the old days. Only difference now is that its more effective perhaps with faster non volatile memory alternatives etc?
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    Vega/Navi Rumors (Updated)

    Wait how do you know what the die size difference between a HBM2 memory controller vs a GDDR5/5X controller? Its well documented that the PCB size is significantly reduced but the actual GPU die? Having a GDDR5/5X VEGA wouldn't have been so bad because well it would have it out by now. No...
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    NVIDIA GeForce 20 Series (Volta) to be released later this year - GV100 announced

    They are not direct competitors. The use case for V100 is vastly different to the TPU (they happen to overlap in Tensor based work). The TPU is pretty much the definition of an ASIC (application specific integrated circuit), in that it just does Tensor based work and thats it. The V100 on the...
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    Vega/Navi Rumors (Updated)

    The VEGA pro specs says it can reach up to 13TFLOPs (FP32) meaning its running near 1.6GHz. That seems fairly impressive given the 1.2GHz rumours. However when you look at spec 12.1 scores of say a Quadro P6000.. the comparison they have doesnt look too good (the system they used are different...
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    Vega/Navi Rumors (Updated)

    In my opinion its very hard to estimate how VEGA might perform based on current GPUs unlike potential Volta based Geforce products. AMDs GCN architecture first and foremost doesn't clock very high when comparing against their competition. Whether its due to the architecture or process node or...
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    AMD X399 !!!!!

    If these are true and hopefully they wont charge you $$$ like intel does, this just might be my next work station. However The naming scheme could be abit better.. would have thought something like: Ryzen 9 1980X, 1970X, 1960X, 1950X sound better than 1998.. almost as bad as Titan Xp.
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    NVIDIA GeForce 20 Series (Volta) to be released later this year - GV100 announced

    Yeah some good points. Its interesting that P100 also has 4SMs disabled just like the V100. Now if we were extrapolating the possible specs of a GV104.. the transistion from GP100 to GP102 could give us a rough estimate. GP100 is 610mm2 while the GP102 is 471mm2. Thats roughly a ~23% reduction...